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Speech Error Elicitation and Co-occurrence Restrictions in two Ethiopian Semitic Languages

University of California, San Diego, rose{at}ling.ucsd.edu

Lisa King

University of Maryland, College Park

This article reports the results of speech error elicitation experiments investigating the role of two consonant co-occurrence restrictions in the productive grammar of speakers of two Ethiopian Semitic languages, Amharic and Chaha. Higher error rates were found with consonant combinations that violated co-occurrence constraints than with those that had only a high degree of shared phonological similarity or low frequency of co-occurrence. Sequences that violated two constraints had the highest error rates. The results indicate that violations of consonant co-occurrence restrictions significantly increase error rates in the productions of native speakers, thereby supporting the psychological reality of the constraints.

Key Words: co-occurrence • restrictions • Ethiopian Semitic • similarity • speech errors

Language and Speech, Vol. 50, No. 4, 451-504 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/00238309070500040101


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